Warren Dudley

Warren is a screenwriter from the UK, and has spent all of his life living in Seaford, East Sussex, and the surrounding areas. He studied, mostly unsuccessfully, at Tideway School in Newhaven before embarking on a career in print and design.

After a brief dalliance with music in the 90’s with the band Stebson,Warren turned to writing, and to making a no budget WWII movie called Lived with work colleague Rick Roberts in the early 2000’s. After several more self-made film projects including The Cutting Room and Cage, he got his big break when the opportunity to adapt Dave Roberts’s football memoir The Bromley Boys was handed to him by producer and friend TJ Herbert in 2012. The movie went on to have a successful UK and US cinema run and has garnered critical acclaim.

In 2018 he worked with Blair Witch Project director Eduardo Sanchez on a show for SkyTV.

During lockdown Warre wrote two books - a creepy thriller called Baby Blue, and a football comedy memoir called Sir Unwin Pugh - From Hull to Camp Nou.

“I’ve spent the last ten years flitting between football-based comedy and the horror/thriller genres. It’s been a privilege to work on these projects with some brilliant, talented people. However, it’s been gnawing away at me that I have yet to make anything ‘real’. Something gritty and heartfelt that packs an emotional punch.

The idea for Six Years Gone has been floating around my head for a while. As the parent of a now thirteen-year-old daughter, news reports about missing children have always left me with chills, and I felt those feelings could be mined for a script. About six months ago I saw a French film called The Unknown Girl, and it immediately made me think that a similar way of shooting could bring my new idea to life. I loved the ultra-real performances and greyness of the film. I aim to get close to this with Six Years Gone.”